clientage
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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
The library had a limited and dwindling clientage.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
Their united clientage included the investors of Great Britain and the Continent, and a popular loan could not be effected without their aid and co-operation.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
Characteristic of the times was the new form of clientage which was a voluntary association of master and paid retainer.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
I did succeed, in a way, from the beginning, and was not without a good clientage, and some good employments.
From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer
